CVE-2009-2666

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-08-05
Bugzilla:
515804: CVE-2009-2666 fetchmail: SSL null terminator bypass

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Find out more about CVE-2009-2666 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (fetchmail) RHSA-2009:1427 2009-09-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (fetchmail) RHSA-2009:1427 2009-09-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (fetchmail) RHSA-2009:1427 2009-09-08

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